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Onikira

Onikira

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The Onikira Soundtrack: Immerse yourself in the beautiful sounds of the world of Onikira.
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Developed by Irish-based indie, Digital Furnace Games, Onikira: Demon Killer is an awesome side-scrolling, 2D beat’em-up set in fantasy feudal Japan. As Yamazaki Jiro, a lone samurai, players battle to prevent the forces of the Japanese underworld, Yomi, from consuming the land of the living.

Onikira: Demon Killer blends together complex deep fighting mechanics usually found in traditional 3D beat-em’ups, like Ninja Gaiden or Bayonetta and merges them with classic 2D platform-game mechanics. Onikira’s expressive fighting system enables players to engage in whichever way suits them best. Some players will prefer to go toe-to toe with heavy weapons and mash buttons while others will opt for a ranged game style, avoiding heavy melee encounters. Try launching an enemy into the air, wall jumping to position yourself above them then Katana Slaming them into the ground. Switch weapons to the Naginata and use the Naginata Lift and air dash moves to stay in the air and off crumbling platforms, while pulling enemies up to you to be dispatched in mid-air. Whip out your grappling hook to grapple between platforms, across chasms or fiery pits, all the while fending off enemies.

Onikira: Demon Killer boasts seven challenging areas and players can express themselves with over forty uber-cool moves, using four devastating weapons. Each level is littered with foul demons that players must dispatch back to the underworld and players must also face two mini-bosses and two epic mega bosses. Every level is crammed full of environmental aids to help the player in combat encounters. Slice the support pillars off a building and watch it crush your enemies as it collapses, or use your moves to fling enemies into spikes, pits, or the path of moving deadly objects. Be careful though, as dropping a building on your own head is known to cause sadness!

Unique high-level combat – Onikira mixes 2D platform game elements into the combat system to make something special. Moving platforms, wall jumping, wall running and grappling all serve to make for dynamic and emergent combat encounters.

Responsive and Expressive Combat System – players are rewarded for strategic and skill-based fighting. Play flows naturally from move to move, allowing the player to create new combos that haven’t been designed explicitly by the developers.

Soul Shop – souls are the currency of Onikira. Use them to revive your health and trade them. At certain points inside each level, the player will find rifts into Yomi where benevolent spirits will trade moves for collected souls.

Specific enemy types – with their own unique vulnerabilities, every enemy emphasises a particular fighting style, like a floating, possessed Mempo mask that encourages the use of air game or a monstrously twisted high-ranking samurai, where hit and run tactics are the best way to stay alive.

Onikira is a 2D side scrolling beat ‘em up set in a fantasy feudal Japan where the player takes on the role of a samurai fighting to prevent the forces of the Japanese underworld from breaking through into the world of the living.

Review

Onikira

Onikira is one of those games designed in order to help you relive history unlike never before. However, in order to spruce up the experience and make it more interesting, the game delivers a new, exciting and different feudal Japan where fantasy items have come to life and you are the only one to stop.

Onikira has a very simple gameplay, similar to the other sidescroller titles we all know and love, but they weren’t afraid to add their own twist to the story. The gameplay is refined to the point where your entire experience depends on the way you play. That on its own is very interesting and exciting to be honest, but the way they compared mechanics from 3D beat-em-ups and integrated them here is simple as fun and extraordinary as you would expect.

It’s really nice to see that you can switch weapons even while jumping and each one of those actually has a different power. Sure, there are a few issues here and there such as the fact that there are a few animation bugs that make the movement a little incoherent at times but other than that I can safely say that the game does a solid job when it comes to creating an exciting, fun and truly immersive game world. There could have been a multitude of other interesting tools in this game but for some reason Onikira manages to deliver the true excitement and interesting appeal that you always wanted.

There’s a variety of enemies to be had here but the story is very good and in order to follow it you do need to kill just about anyone that comes in your way. There are tons of demons in the game and since you can use environmental aids at any given time, you can imagine that the entire experience is solid and filled with a lot of potential.

The game world is nicely designed all the time in this game and the entire experience is created with a professional tone. You can find a great combat focus in this game and the fact that you can modify the experience to suit your needs is all bun fun and rewarding all the same. The game is really good at what it does and the simplicity of all platforming elements definitely showcases how interesting and different Onikira really is.

Graphics are great, albeit not very impressive, but they do a good job when it comes to setting the tone of the game world and making the feudal Japan setting a credible and fun one. Of course, there are some hints here and there in regards to how the game plays out and how you should play it, but each one of them is very interesting and cleverly integrated into the entire experience.

Overall, Onikira is a solid game, and it does deliver a great perspective about true, action packed gameplay all around. It’s a really fun game and the entire experience is amazing, so you should totally give this title a shot if you are into platformers with a good story and interesting battles.